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HeyDesigner is the daily reading list for product people, UXers, PMs, and design engineers. 👉 https://heydesigner.com Founded and curated by https://tamassari.me | https://bsky.app/profile/tamassari.me

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3742 → The "AI can do the UX" mistake → How to test a Figma Design System with Claude Code and figma-cli → Agent-native coding environments → Claude Cowork for designers → The shape of apps Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-08-05/

The "AI can do the UX" mistake, and more... — HeyDesigner

The "AI can do the UX" mistake, How to test a Figma Design System with Claude Code and figma-cli, Agent-native coding environments, Claude Cowork for designers

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🚀 Issue 755 is out! This week: → AI skills and workflows for designers → The plateau of sad gray icons → Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers → 10 GUI design elements build every user interface → On layout choreography and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/s...

Skills and workflows for designers, and more... | HeyDesigner

The plateau of sad gray icons, Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers (video), 10 GUI design elements, On layout choreography, and more.

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3740 → Designing for the proxy → Asana’s fascinating tab shortcuts → Designing with code → Weighing the business case for quality → What’s wrong with being wrong? → When the rules are wrong Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-08-03/

Designing for the proxy, and more... — HeyDesigner

Designing for the proxy, Asana’s fascinating tab shortcuts, Designing with code, Weighing the business case for quality

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3739 → The plateau of sad gray icons → Everyone's work is starting to look the same → On giving AI taste → Ideas are cheap. Invention is not → The launch of CodePen 2.0 Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-31/

The plateau of sad gray icons, and more... — HeyDesigner

The plateau of sad gray icons, Everyone's work is starting to look the same, On giving AI taste, Ideas are cheap. Invention is not

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3738 → Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers (video) → The future of design systems (video) → 10 GUI design elements build every user interface → You can prompt a prototype. You can’t prompt taste and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-30/

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers (video), and more... — HeyDesigner

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers (video), The future of design systems (video), 10 GUI design elements build every user interface, You can prompt a prototype. You can’t prompt taste

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3737 → Designing the internet computer (video) → Component contracts and schemas → You’re not building what you think you’re building → Dither it! Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-29/

Designing the internet computer (video), and more... — HeyDesigner

Designing the internet computer (video), Component contracts and schemas, You’re not building what you think you’re building, Dither it!

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3736 → AI skills and workflows for designers → Packaging design judgment → Evaluating agents beyond the first prompt → Information architecture is the foundation AI is starving for → On layout choreography Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-28/

AI skills and workflows for designers, and more... — HeyDesigner

AI skills and workflows for designers, Packaging design judgment, Evaluating agents beyond the first prompt, Information architecture is the foundation AI is starving for

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3735 → A concrete definition of “Product Sense” → Your website is boring (but that might just set it free) → Rauno's field notes → Writing by hand is good for your brain → CSS infinity use cases Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-27/

A concrete definition of “Product Sense”, and more... — HeyDesigner

A concrete definition of “Product Sense”, Your website is boring (but that might just set it free), Rauno's field notes, Writing by hand is good for your brain

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3734 → Design is how it tastes → Protecting your creativity in an AI world (video) → Designing fast and slow → Canvas UI: Creative canvas and WebGL component library Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-24/

Design is how it tastes, and more... — HeyDesigner

Design is how it tastes, Protecting your creativity in an AI world (video), Designing fast and slow, Canvas UI: Creative canvas and WebGL component library

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3733 → Components are dead → Does your form really need a dropdown list? → Software factories, light and dark → How to apply Nir Eyal’s Hook Model to AI products, safely → Not tokens Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-23/

Components are dead, and more... — HeyDesigner

Components are dead, Does your form really need a dropdown list?, Software factories, light and dark, How to apply Nir Eyal’s Hook Model to AI products, safely

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3732 → The dark arts of skill engineering → Design process, meet agent process → Working backwards → A side project is the fastest way to upskill in the age of AI → Why I don’t use interruption pages Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-22/

The dark arts of skill engineering, and more... — HeyDesigner

The dark arts of skill engineering, Design process, meet agent process, Working backwards, A side project is the fastest way to upskill in the age of AI

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🚀 Issue 753 is out! This week: → Why is AI bad at design? → Design-system maturity: A 6-dimension framework → Taste cannot be delegated → Product design in the age of AI → Designing 99 'No's for a single 'Yes' (video) and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/w...

Why is AI bad at design?, and more... | HeyDesigner

Design-system maturity: A 6-dimension framework, Taste cannot be delegated, Product design in the age of AI, Design systems need evals, Grid Lanes, and more.

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3730 → Training design senses → Make it work vs. make it good → The Swiss cheese model, pt. 1 → Rebuilding FIFA standings layout with CSS Subgrid → Retry is not a loop, its a data structure Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-20/

Training design senses, and more... — HeyDesigner

Training design senses, Make it work vs. make it good, The Swiss cheese model, pt. 1, Rebuilding FIFA standings layout with CSS Subgrid

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3728 → Why is AI bad at design? → Actually, the shape of the work does change → Earning taste and judgment → OKHST: Predictable color generation for real interfaces → Against design system federation Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-16/

Why is AI bad at design?, and more... — HeyDesigner

Why is AI bad at design?, Actually, the shape of the work does change, Earning taste and judgment, OKHST: Predictable color generation for real interfaces

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3727 → Product design in the age of AI → There is no neutral design → Colorsym: Symbols that speak color → How to build a design system strategy you'll actually deliver → The rise of creative provenance Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-15/

Product design in the age of AI, and more... — HeyDesigner

Product design in the age of AI, There is no neutral design, Colorsym: Symbols that speak color, How to build a design system strategy you'll actually deliver

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🚀 Issue 752 is out! This week: → The hard things about design → Career advice for designers → On designing finger-friendly interactions → Designing for trust → Design systems are no longer optional and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/t...

The hard things about design, and more... | HeyDesigner

Career advice for designers, On designing finger-friendly interactions, Designing for trust, Dense by design, Design systems are no longer optional, and more.

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3725 → Design-system maturity → Taste cannot be delegated → Craft still matters, but it’s about outcomes → Setting type like a printed page → What’s an icon in 2026? → Dive Radio Show → Principles in motion Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-13/

Design-system maturity: A 6-dimension framework, and more... — HeyDesigner

Design-system maturity: A 6-dimension framework, Taste cannot be delegated, Craft still matters, but it’s about outcomes, Setting type like a printed page

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3723 → Dense by design (video) → Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers → Five reasons design teams are struggling to adopt AI → Creative focus → Ease in, ease out, and everything between Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-09/

Dense by design (video), and more... — HeyDesigner

Dense by design (video), Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers, Five reasons design teams are struggling to adopt AI, Creative focus

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3720 → On designing finger-friendly interactions → This is how I do agentic design at Mercury (video) → Understanding is the new bottleneck → A clear map of the figma-to-code AI mess and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-06/

On designing finger-friendly interactions, and more... — HeyDesigner

On designing finger-friendly interactions, This is how I do agentic design at Mercury (video), Understanding is the new bottleneck, A clear map of the figma-to-code AI mess

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3719 → Astryx Design System → Paper Shaders: Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders → Figma Motion is the feature I didn't know I was waiting for → Building an LLM safe design system and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-03/

Astryx Design System, and more... — HeyDesigner

Astryx Design System, Paper Shaders: Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders, Figma Motion is the feature I didn't know I was waiting for, Building an LLM safe design system

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner — Nº 3717 → Codex superpowers for designers (video) → 39 principles for designing human–AI interaction → AI interaction atlas: Open source AI UX reference → Modern UI patterns (video) Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/2026-07-01/

Codex superpowers for designers (video), and more... — HeyDesigner

Codex superpowers for designers (video), 39 principles for designing human–AI interaction, AI interaction atlas: Open source AI UX reference, Modern UI patterns (video)

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🚀 Issue 750 is out! This week: → Product design psychology → The layers of AI experience → Less is more, more or less → Design engineer principles → A2UI under the hood and more. Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/p...

Product design psychology, and more... | HeyDesigner

The layers of AI experience, Less is more, more or less, Design engineer principles, A2UI under the hood, Taste: Design DNA for agents, Astro 7.0, and more.

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